There's a First Time for Everything...
Jul. 24th, 2010 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dracoqueen22Let me just say this. I am an incredibly patient person. I can willingly suspend disbelief for just about anything. And there is rarely anything artistic that I can say I openly loathe. I have only once in my memory ceased watching a film because I thought it wasn't worth my time. Hell, I even managed to finish "Bangkok Dangerous" which I thought to be incredibly, incredibly bad.
Anyway, that previous film was the newest version of "Prince Caspian". I loved the new "Lion Witch and the Wardrobe" even with the scene additions and whatnot. Thought it was beautiful. But I HATED "Prince Caspian". I loathed it so much that I stopped watching halfway through it. The acting was terrible. The dialogue was awful. So were the accents. And worse, they ripped out a lot of things that were so important to the whole Chronicles of Narnia series.
In that vein, I will add this. I've never walked out on a movie before. If I'm paying ten bucks a ticket to see something, you can damn well guarantee I'm going to watch it until the end.
Until today.
Ladies and gentleman, I now believe everyone who told me "The Last Airbender" was a piece of crap. I didn't want to believe so until I saw with my own eyes, thinking that they were over-exaggerating just because of a little racebending. But to be honest, I can't think of a single redeeming thing about M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender."
The dialogue was crappy. The special effects looked cheap. The acting was terrible. The costumes sucked. There were all these awkward silences between the characters. The music wasn't even anything to brag about. It was, plainly put, awful.
Thirty minutes in, I convinced my friend to leave with me because I couldn't watch it anymore. I couldn't. I've seen the whole series. I LOVE the whole series. And I felt like this movie had literally torn everything that was good about the series to shreds. And if she hadn't wanted to leave, I would have sat my ass on the bench outside the movie with a notebook and wrote down ideas for fics of my own before sitting in that theater and watching the rest of it.
Now, this is only my opinion. I'm sure there are lots of people who enjoyed the movie. And I'm glad they did. After all, Shyamalan should get something back for the $150 million he poured into it.
However, I did not enjoy it at all and wish I could get back the thirty minutes (and $15) I wasted on it. I was so disappointed.
Anyway, that previous film was the newest version of "Prince Caspian". I loved the new "Lion Witch and the Wardrobe" even with the scene additions and whatnot. Thought it was beautiful. But I HATED "Prince Caspian". I loathed it so much that I stopped watching halfway through it. The acting was terrible. The dialogue was awful. So were the accents. And worse, they ripped out a lot of things that were so important to the whole Chronicles of Narnia series.
In that vein, I will add this. I've never walked out on a movie before. If I'm paying ten bucks a ticket to see something, you can damn well guarantee I'm going to watch it until the end.
Until today.
Ladies and gentleman, I now believe everyone who told me "The Last Airbender" was a piece of crap. I didn't want to believe so until I saw with my own eyes, thinking that they were over-exaggerating just because of a little racebending. But to be honest, I can't think of a single redeeming thing about M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender."
The dialogue was crappy. The special effects looked cheap. The acting was terrible. The costumes sucked. There were all these awkward silences between the characters. The music wasn't even anything to brag about. It was, plainly put, awful.
Thirty minutes in, I convinced my friend to leave with me because I couldn't watch it anymore. I couldn't. I've seen the whole series. I LOVE the whole series. And I felt like this movie had literally torn everything that was good about the series to shreds. And if she hadn't wanted to leave, I would have sat my ass on the bench outside the movie with a notebook and wrote down ideas for fics of my own before sitting in that theater and watching the rest of it.
Now, this is only my opinion. I'm sure there are lots of people who enjoyed the movie. And I'm glad they did. After all, Shyamalan should get something back for the $150 million he poured into it.
However, I did not enjoy it at all and wish I could get back the thirty minutes (and $15) I wasted on it. I was so disappointed.
